Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.